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Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom
In an extended interview in 1883 Silvia Dubois, then nearly 100 years old, told her life story to Dr. Larison. This edition preserves Larison's idiosyncratic phonetic spelling, with annotations.
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First published April 14, 1988
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January 2, 2021
Silvia Dubois is a slave of local renown. Her age is uncertain, but she was born in the late 1700s and died in the late 1800s. Some say she was 116 years old, but all we know for sure is that she was very, VERY old. A local Doctor interviewed her towards the end of her colorful life and recounts those interviews in this book. Luckily, this edition contains both the traditional English version and the doctor's simplification of the English language, his pet project that didn't catch on (and is very hard to read if you are not used to it.). A very interesting look at slave life both before and after emancipation.
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